Android was the most common smartphone OS in the last quarter of 2010, overtaking former world No. 1 Symbian which runs on Nokia phones, according to a recent study by U.K.-based research firm Canalys.

Nokia has announced its new X Series X2-01 mid range smartphone in India. The phone has a Qwerty keypad and a 2.4 inch 320 x 240 pixel or QVGA resolution display. It is priced at Rs 4,500 and is available in many colours including red, silver and blue. Nokia’s X2-01 is meant for people who do a lot of texting and social networking.

A picture of a Nokia device running the long-awaited MeeGo platform has been leaked on the Web.

Nokia, which has maintained a low profile in the euphoric smartphone market, continues nevertheless to be the leading smartphone brand in India. Nokia is planning to launch three new mobile phones-Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, Nokia C5-03 and C6-01 in India with prices starting at Rs 6,000.

Orange will soon be bringing two new Nokia phones namely, C2-01 and C1-01 to the U.K. market.

Nokia’s X7 with a 4-inch screen and 8 megapixel camera is to be released on AT&T in the United States, according to tech website Pocketnow.com, which says the device has the wireless operator's brand name upon it.

India, with its 706.69 million mobile phone subscribers, has become a battle ground for handset manufacturers.

Five hundred thousand Windows Phone 7 devices have been sold within the half year since the smartphone platform was launched by Microsoft.

Under pressure mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled its plans for 2011 that include a smarter User Interface (UI) for Symbian and lots of phones around Nvidia's dual core Tegra 2 processors.

Google Maps for Mobile 5 will be released soon. This announcement was made by the founder of Android and vice president of engineering at Google, Andy Rubin, at the launch of the company’s latest mobile phone operating system Android 2.3 Gingerbread.